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title: Phones change by themselves; ovens, cars and kitchen clocks need doi… — The date line and summer time: clocks going forw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Phones change by themselves; ovens, cars and kitchen clocks need doing by hand, or they're an hour out for half the year. Who acts: Phones, ovens. A sentence of the lesson «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back, sentence 9

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Phones change by themselves; ovens, cars and kitchen clocks need doing by hand, or they're an hour out for half the year.

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**Who acts:** Phones, ovens · **What happens:** change, need, do, be · **To what, where:** hour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phones, ovens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:9
# text = Phones change by themselves; ovens, cars and kitchen clocks need doing by hand, or they're an hour out for half the year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ovens	oven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Phones |  |  |  |  | by Phones *= phone* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **need** | present | ovens and cars and kitchen clocks |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | gerund | ovens and cars and kitchen clocks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | ovens *= oven* | a hour |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:121-date-line-and-summer-time.lesson:9`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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